{"id":1002486,"date":"2026-04-11T10:01:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002486"},"modified":"2026-04-11T10:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:35:14","slug":"legal-blow-to-meta-as-us-court-backs-youth-addiction-claims-over-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/11\/legal-blow-to-meta-as-us-court-backs-youth-addiction-claims-over-instagram\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal blow to Meta as US court backs youth addiction claims over Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms must face a lawsuit by Massachusetts\u2019 attorney general alleging the company designed its Instagram social media platform to addict children, the state\u2019s top court ruled on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court marked the first time a state high court has considered whether a federal law that generally shields internet companies from lawsuits over content posted by their users would also bar claims that companies \u2060like Meta \u200bknowingly addicted young users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms must face a lawsuit by Massachusetts\u2019 attorney general alleging the company designed its Instagram social media platform to addict children, the state\u2019s top court ruled on Friday. The ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court marked the first time a state high court has considered whether a federal law that generally shields internet companies from lawsuits over content posted by their users would also bar claims that companies \u2060like Meta \u200bknowingly addicted young users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}